When we pass, we take decades of knowledge, experiences, family wisdom and delightful stories with us to The Next Place. But I want MORE! If my Family gathers to celebrate my life, I want to gracefully glide unseen amongst them as they share their favorite stories. Perhaps...just perhaps the youngsters will remember some of them. To hand down yet again...as they become embellished. In FAG, we have the chance to document stories and factoids that may otherwise be lost forever, as each generation marches into the future.

As a Veteran and daughter of one, I believe that we should honor our Veterans~~the women and men who have fought and sacrificed for this great Republic by noting their service in their memorial. The courageous dead deserve to be honored and remembered.

**Thanks to each of you who is dedicated enough to send edits. A little clue here, and a little research there rebuilds the lives of those whom we remember and honor.+++

***In most cases I am willing to transfer memorials of people who are not family to me. Please tell me how you are related to that person and make your request through the edit tab on the memorial. Thank you.***Mitch Mäder

RE: Margaret ChurchmanI was told once, that the only ignorant question, was the one not asked.... :)Sorry, for the MM, but it stands for "Monthly Meeting"... if you look at his memorial too, you will see that he was a minister as well in the Nottingham MM....I find many things most intriguing about Quakers, and their acknowledgement of a (married) women's ability to minister is just one of them. Take Care,L

Nancy Buxton BolesI have seen that there is a family bible that lists the Alfred Shannon and Melissa Buxton children's names. Melissa was the youngest of the Buxton children by Jacob's second wife. She is my 4th grandmother. Alfred disappeared between 1857 and 1860 when she remarried Barnard Alwine. She had three boys with him, and then he disappeared. She was declared destitute and sent to the poorhouse where she committed suicide.

RE: Van SicklesThanks for the comment. My grandmother was Rhoda VanSickle, so I have collected information about a great many individuals with the VanSickle name (and variants of the name). If useful to you, I can give you an access link to my entire tree.Gordon

Not really devoted to the Wright family, except in correctly defining where the linked ancestors came from vs. what printed literature has claimed and has been adopted as fact by uninformed descendants.

I now "maintain" the memorial of Josiah Wright, 3rd of North Hero, VT [22314031] and made a slight edit that corrected your original sketch to reflect the persons who relocated from Pittsfield to Greenville. If you have other things to add, please let me know.